Poison Genius Consort

o the courtyard.
He wouldn’t have married Mu Liuyue in vain.
As expected, Great General Mu murmured, “Your Highness Crown Prince, this soldier will remember the debt.
However, with the current imperial guards…”

Long Tianmo laughed coldly before he finished, “Haven’t you planted plenty of Mu Clan men into the imperial guards’ ranks? Moreover, hasn’t the artillerymen fallen under the Ministry of War’s jurisdiction?”

The most intelligent decision that Emperor Tianhui made in his lifetime was to quickly claim the front line artillerymen from General Mu’s command.
It was something he’d wanted to do for ages.
However, his stupidest choice was to transfer command of the artillery and its gunpowder reserves to the high official in charge of the Ministry of War.
The entire ministry had long drawn lots with Long Tianmo’s faction!

Chu Qingge’s dowry had included a regiment of archers, but it was the Ministry of War that proposed to leave those archers at the borders to guard Great General Ning’s calvary forces.
The crown prince had agreed with the proposal at Great General Mu’s suggestion to avoid rousing suspicion.
Now Great General Mu was nodded his head helplessly to Long Tianmo’s words.

In the end, he decided, “This is no small matter.
It’s come so suddenly as well, so I ask Your Highness to give this soldier some time to consider the details.”

Long Tianmo nodded.
“Very well! This crown prince will give you time.
However…you should have made preparations already.”

Everything had happened too suddenly.
He never expected imperial father to get suspicious so soon.
But since Emperor Tianhui was more willing to trust outsiders like Chu Qingge over himself, don’t blame me for forsaking the bonds between father and son!

He had erased imperial father from his heart ever since the man used him as a pawn to face off against the Duke of Qin and Qin Wangfei!

Just like that, the Eastern Palace and Great General Mu’s estate started their secret preparations.
Investigating the crossbow archers became the responsibility of the newly appointed head commander of the imperial guards.
He was a loyal subject to Emperor Tianhui and attacked his duties with gusto, making a new round of arrests that left the populace trembling in their shoes.
Emperor Tianhui favored Chu Qingge one more time.
He was already swaying in her favor, so her bedside whispers convinced him to give the imperial guards permission to search through the residences of the nobility as well.
Before this, the guards had limited authority when it came to the aristocrats.

This news sent the entire nobility into a seething flurry of emotions.
However, the Duke of Qin’s estate was the quietest one of all.
Qin Wangfei wasn’t home and His Highness Duke of Qin had retreated into seclusion.
Su Xiaoyu had come back home because all work had stopped on Pill Fiend Pharmacy, and spent her days chatting idly with Zhao mama. At the Han Estate, Han Yunxi had spent numerous days in silence.
To outsiders, she looked to be doing nothing but hiding in her rooms and sleeping all day.
In actuality, she had shut herself up in her detox system to wander around.

Back at the black markets, she’d combined Perplexing Butterfly Illusion and Beauty’s Tear into the poison pond water, then left it in her detox system, untouched.
She had originally come for some peace and quiet, but found that a reaction had occurred between all three poisons.
Of course, she still didn’t know what had changed, but could feel that the corrosive qualities of Perplexing Butterfly Illusion had weakened slightly from the fusion.
Besides that, she had plenty of other tasks to occupy her mind in the detox system too.
For example, organizing her giant store of medicinal ingredients by hand.

Whenever she was in a bad mood, she’d busy herself with work until her mood improved.
The busier she was, the less she had to feel.
Still, she had the damnable luck of making constant mistakes this time.
She actually ended up making a mess of her well-organized storehouse and had to resort to brainpower to clean up the disaster.
Once that was done, she ended up fiddling with the piles again….mm, to make another mess.

What would Long Feiye feel if he knew she was doing such things at the Han Estate?

Today, Long Feiye finally emerged from his seclusion, his injury about halfway healed.
Chu Xifeng brought him news as soon as he appeared.
“Your Highness, as you’ve predicted, the Chu Clan’s made their move.”

“Has everything been tidied up?” Long Feiye asked mildly.

“Yes, everything has.
There’s only…” Chu Xifeng didn’t dare to say.
Without a doubt, everything under His Highness’s name had been taken care of except for one certain woman.

It was unclear whether Long Feiye caught the hint, but he only said coldly, “You should make preparations as well.
Your lordship will leave the city tonight.”

Alright, Chu Xifeng found himself unable to say anything at all.

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That night, a disaster broke out at the general’s estate.
The head commander of the imperial guards brought a team of men to personally search their grounds and discovered ten crossbow archers hidden in the outhouse.
Naturally, the archers fled, but Head Commander Meng Zhan managed to shoot two of them.

The discovery led to an uproar!

Meng Zhan’s men chased after the remaining suspects while ordering guards to surround the general’s estate.
Emperor Tianhui fumed and placed orders that very night to revoke the Mu father and son’s titles and their military authority.
The justice courts were to lock them up into the prisons to await trial.
However, when they came to take the Mu father and son into custody, three cannons went off outside the capital city.
The artillerymen had raised the rebellion first!

Utter pandemonium broke out in the capital city.
En route to the prisons, the Mu father and son had ‘no choice’ but to ally with the imperial guards and call out their troops.
When there was a mutiny in the capital city, attacking the imperial palace was the most important step!

Emperor Tianhui spat out a mouthful of blood from his imperial study.
Fortunately, more than half of the imperial guards were in his hands to ward off the attacks.
Chu Qingge never expected the situation to turn critical, while the Chu Tianyin in hiding was caught completely off-guard.
Everything had been meticulously planned, but Long Tianmo’s sudden rebellion had wasted all his efforts! The rest of the people in the city fled like mice in the night.
However, the Han Estate had long been standing empty…

Where did its people go?